If any of you have VA connections to My mother-in-law,
Marie Shackelford
Blackwell, was born in Culpeper nearly 100 years ago, daughter of
Robert, b.1870, granddaughter of John L. b. ?, married
Clarence Meredith Blackwell I would like to hear from you. Thank
You.

Pat has sent an update on Feb. 26, 2000

Hello Patricia, Regarding the family of Marie Shackelford Blackwell who
will be 103 years old at the end of May 2000, having lived in three centuries:

If you would like to update the information I have about my mother-in-law
Marie's Shackelfords, I believe I have connected them to the John Shackelford
who is mentioned at the end in the last edition of the Shackelford Clan magazine
in Apr. 1957, about pp. 1146-47. He married first Peggy Newby and then
Betsy Brannin, our ancestor, who is mentioned in the newsletter as "widow
of, name not shown, John Shackelford died December 28th, 1855".

A cousin and I are now sure of this line, but would welcome any additions
and/or corrections to this data or lines. I also have the roster listing
of John Larkin Shackelford (above) in the Civil War, if you would like to
add him to your military listings.

I forgot to mention that it appears from our research that Robert
Shackelford's son John Larkin married his cousin: Robert's sister Harriet
Shackelford Brown's daughter, Ella Brown.